CLINTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clinton mean? 

• CLINTON (noun)
  The noun CLINTON has 4 senses:

1. wife of President Clinton and later a woman member of the United States Senate (1947-)

2. 42nd President of the United States (1946-)

3. United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828)

4. a town in east central Iowa

  Familiarity information: CLINTON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLINTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wife of President Clinton and later a woman member of the United States Senate (1947-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Clinton; Hilary Clinton; Hilary Rodham Clinton

Instance hypernyms:

senator (a member of a senate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

42nd President of the United States (1946-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bill Clinton; Clinton; President Clinton; William Jefferson Clinton

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Clinton; DeWitt Clinton

Instance hypernyms:

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A town in east central Iowa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Clinton" is a part of...):

Hawkeye State; IA; Ia.; Iowa (a state in midwestern United States)

 Context examples 

De Borhunte was up in the east, and Sir John de Montague in the west. Sir Luke de Ponynges, Sir Thomas West, Sir Maurice de Bruin, Sir Arthur Lipscombe, Sir Walter Ramsey, and stout Sir Oliver Buttesthorn were all marching south with levies from Andover, Arlesford, Odiham and Winchester, while from Sussex came Sir John Clinton, Sir Thomas Cheyne, and Sir John Fallislee, with a troop of picked men-at-arms, making for their port at Southampton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)